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🔬 Science Facts That Blow Your Mind

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🌟 Incredible Quick Facts

⚡ Lightning is hotter than the sun’s surface.
🧬 Your DNA could stretch to Pluto and back—17 times.
🍌 Bananas are slightly radioactive.
🌍 Earth is the only planet not named after a god.
🦠 More bacteria in your mouth than people on Earth.
💡 A teaspoon of neutron star weighs 6 billion tons.

🧠 Did You Know?

Atoms are mostly empty space

If you removed all the empty space from atoms, all humans would fit into a sugar cube.

Octopuses have three hearts

Two pump to the gills, one to the body. Their blood is blue!

Space smells like seared steak

Astronauts say spacewalk suits return with a distinct smell of metal or grilled meat.

🕒 Timeline of Discoveries

  • 📜 1687 — Newton publishes *Principia Mathematica*
  • 💡 1879 — Edison invents the electric bulb
  • 🧬 1953 — DNA double helix discovered
  • 🚀 1969 — First man walks on the Moon
  • 🌌 1990 — Hubble Space Telescope launched
“Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.”
— Carl Sagan